Thursday, February 25, 2016

Time to Change the Tune on Official 'Multiculturalism'

General
Sharing: (Especially addressed to aggressive & demanding new Muslim
immigrants): Excellent article from the Calgary Herald: "Time to Change
the Tune on Official 'Multiculturalism' " ..

Dan Everiss

Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 9:40 PM

This is something to think about.

A must-read for all Canadians & especially our Politicians! And to our friends in the USA

Time to Change Tune on Official Multiculturalism by Licia Corbella, Calgary Herald -

About
one dozen families who recently immigrated to Canada are demanding that
the Louis Riel School Division in Winnipeg excuse their children from
music and co-ed physical education programs for religious reasons. The
families believe music is un-Islamic ~ just like the Taliban believe and
then imposed on the entire population of Afghanistan and that physical
education classes should be segregated by gender even in the elementary
years.

The
school division is facing the music in a typically Canadian way - that
is, bending itself into a trombone to try to accommodate these demands,
even though in Manitoba, and indeed the rest of the country, music and
phys-ed are compulsory parts of the curriculum.

Officials
say they may try to have the Muslim children do a writing project on
music to satisfy the curriculum's requirements. The school officials
have apparently consulted the Manitoba Human Rights Commission, and they
have also spoken to a member of the Islamic community suggested by
those very same Muslim parents. In any event, the school district is
trying to find a way to adapt the curriculum to fit the wishes of these
families, rather than these families adapting to fit into the school and
Canadian culture.

Mahfooz
Kanwar, a member of the Muslim Canadian Congress, says he has a better
idea. "I'd tell them, this is Canada, and in Canada, we teach music and
physical education in our schools. If you don't like it, leave. If you
want to live under sharia law, go back to the hellhole country you came
from or go to another hellhole country that lives under sharia law,"
said Kanwar, who is a professor emeritus of sociology at Mount Royal
University in Calgary.

That
might be putting things a little more forcefully than most of us would
be comfortable with, but Kanwar says he is tired of hearing about such
out-of-tune demands from newcomers to our country. "Immigrants to Canada
should adjust to Canada, not the other way around," he argues. If they
did not like these things in Canada, why did they not go somewhere else?
If they want Canada to be like their homeland why don't they go home?

Kanwar,
who immigrated to Canada from Pakistan via England and then the United
States in 1966, says he used to buy into the "mosaic, official
multiculturalism" (nonsense). He makes it clear, that like most
Canadians, he is pleased and enjoys that Canada has citizens literally
from every country and corner in the world, as it has enriched this
country immensely. But it's official multiculturalism - the state policy
"that entrenches the lie" that all cultures and beliefs are of equal
value and of equal validity in Canada that he objects to.

"The
fact is, Canada has an enviable culture based on Judeo-Christian values
- not Muslim values - with British and French rule of law and
traditions and that's why it's better than all of the other places in
the world. We are heading down a dangerous path if we allow the idea of
sharia law a place in Canada. It does not. It is completely incompatible
with the idea and reality of Canada," says Kanwar, who in the 1970s was
the founder and president of the Pakistan-Canada Association and a big
fan of official multiculturalism.

Kanwar
says his views changed when he started listening to the people who
joined his group. They badmouthed Canada, weren't interested in knowing
Canadians or even in learning one of our official languages. They
created cultural ghettos and the Canadian government even helped fund
it.

"One
day it dawned on me that the reason all of us wanted to move here was
going to disappear if we didn't start defending Canada and its
fundamental values." That's when Kanwar started speaking out against the
dangers of official multiculturalism. He has been doing so for decades.
So, it's no surprise that Kanwar is delighted with the recent speech
British Prime Minister David Cameron delivered to the 47th Munich Security Conference on Feb. 5.

"Under
the doctrine of state multiculturalism," said Cameron, "we have failed
to provide a vision of society to which they feel they want to belong.
We have even tolerated these segregated communities behaving in ways
that run counter to our values. So when a white person holds
objectionable views - racism, for example - we rightly condemn them. But
when equally unacceptable views or practices have come from someone who
isn't white, we've been too cautious, frankly even fearful, to stand up
to them.

This
hands-off tolerance," said Cameron, "has only served to reinforce the
sense that not enough is shared. All this leaves some young Muslims
feeling rootless and... can lead them to this extremist ideology."

Kanwar
actually credits German Chancellor Angela Merkel for being among the
first of the world's democratic leaders to take the courageous step in
October to say that official multiculturalism had "failed totally" It
appears leaders are getting bolder. During an interview with TFI channel
on Feb. 10, French President Nicolas Sarkozy declared: "We have been
too concerned about the identity of the person who was arriving and not
enough about the identity of the country that was receiving him."
Cameron ended his speech by saying: "At stake are not just lives, it's
our way of life. That's why this is a challenge we cannot avoid - and
one we must meet."

That
democratically elected leaders are at long last starting to sing a
different tune on official multiculturalism is sweet music to Kanwar.
Here's hoping those poor kids in Winnipeg will get to hear some of it.

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